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by speeder 5y ago
Last time I heard about this, there was some south koreans explaining this is very not nice, that the laws are silly, and can be weaponized. For example you can gift someone a expensive building right before your death, because when you do
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by speeder 5y ago
I know a board game shop owner that had this issue... He was specialized in a certain card game I won't name, and one of their employees had shares of the biggest shop in the country, and then by "coincidence" all shops that
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by speeder 5y ago
We had a case in Brazil that was both sad and absurdly silly. A woman was found murdered in a cemetery. She was in town for a university-related festival/party, and was staying temporarily with some other students. The police suspected
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by speeder 6y ago
That explains a particular drummer I know... I know a drummer that is very particular about tuning his drums, and he gets mad when people change it, thing is, he also plays other instruments, so I guess he DOES choose what notes he wants fr
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by speeder 6y ago
I think this is because when an artisan makes something, usually you know he tried hard, even if it ends being crap because subpar skills. With industrialized products you know they want it cheap, resulting in crap product that didn't
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by speeder 6y ago
I saw another article explaining a local leader of the seafarers guild/union offered to stay in his place.
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by speeder 6y ago
As he said in the article, it is because he has no intention of abandoning his profession and will resume working, meaning if he had left the ship his career would been ruined.
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by speeder 6y ago
A lot of people need bitcoin. It is really useful to hoard! Not to ge rich, but to avoid getting poorer in countries with rampant inflation. Also it facilitate money transfers a lot. Yes, a transaction in bitcoin is expensive, but a interna
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by speeder 6y ago
Godot wasn't intended to be used for 3D at all, it started as purely 2D engine. The 3D it can do is kinda... "shoved" into it. It works but it wasn't designed from the ground up like other native 3D engines are. Last I c
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by speeder 6y ago
Dunno about primier league but F1 not only put caps but also made some inverse feedback rules. For example now the rules are that your usage of wind tunnels is bigger the closest you are to the last place, while the first place in the ranki
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by speeder 6y ago
I actually want a good flip phone myself. I bought a locally made KaiOS phone but it has too low RAM and keep crashing. Nokia makes flip phones with KaiOS but they aren't allowed in my country sadly. Reason is I want a phone I can repa
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Ask HN: How you even get an interview?
30 points by speeder 6y ago|27 comments
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by speeder 6y ago
I interviewed at Amazon. Aced all questions, except the one that ALL of their inverviewers asked, that was how I had shown leadership solving a problem in a team situation in my past jobs. See, in all my past jobs, I never been in a large t
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by speeder 6y ago
When I was a teenager I used this to attempt to long distance date someone... got banned from the network.
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by speeder 6y ago
I reverse engineered some games trying to fix them. If they were made in ASM? Well, then it is easy, what you get from the decompiler is probably very close to what went into the compiler. C? It gets harder, but decompilation to C is possib
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by speeder 6y ago
I am from Brazil, here Adderall got banned because medics were abusing it. Long story short: Adderall has a side effect of making people lose weight. Didn't took long for Endocrinologists to start to "diagnose" ADHD and give
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by speeder 6y ago
Now I know why my business, that has nothing to do with semiconductors are booming too. I own a store that sells parts and tools to attach things to each other (originally we sold nuts and bolts but those are unprofitable without gigantic v
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by speeder 6y ago
I wonder why their legal department would PREVENT them from saving their users. What legal reason would exist for that? I thought legal would instead force them to save their users, since otherwise they would risk getting sued by all of t
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by speeder 6y ago
I am from Brazil... this is just normal to us. Our taxes are stupidly insane, and often things at outright not available here, so we buy in other countries... need warranty? You are screwed. I bought some RAM for example from US... It had a
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by speeder 6y ago
I am from Brazil... To be honest this would be a complete disaster here. 1. My city main hospital, belongs to Catholic Church, same applies to many other cities. 2. Many of our leading universities, doing research and important work, belong
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by speeder 6y ago
consumers are in this case the advertisers. google has a monopoly on search ads and does enforce it, being a drain on the economy since in many fields you only succeed if you spend on search ads
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by speeder 6y ago
EU happily bombed seasteading projects. Also Somalia originally wanted to split in multiple countries and NATO interventions happened to prevent that and force them to remain only one country, and remain in Civil war
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by speeder 6y ago
I am from Brazil and I can say... things are screwed hard. 1. Food prices are rising fast, I am literally spending double per month now of what I spent 8 months ago. 2. The shipping shortage led to a severe deficit of materials, my shop sel
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by speeder 6y ago
The article mentioned a redesign issue with t he site. I got curious, never been a user of the site, so I went to the login screen, saw the "play" button in the corner, and pressed it. The animation is nothing special, just using
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by speeder 6y ago
Sorry but I think people from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, South America until some 20 years ago and so on... disagree with you... at least for the pillaging part. For the rape part you have what the UN been doing in Africa or central a
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by speeder 6y ago
About your edit: That is the plot of the excellent early access game "Dyson Sphere Project". In the game backstory humanity became entirely digital, but found out AFTER that, the energy requeriments are staggering, so they send th
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by speeder 6y ago
I don't remember if any damages were awarded, but I do remember that the infringing software were all removed from the market when SCUMMVM sued Atari for releasing Nintendo Wii games using their game engine without sharing anything at
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by speeder 6y ago
When you compare for price, they are not that slower. I have 3 1TB WD Blacks that reach 300 mb/s, when I was shopping for my drives, similar SSDs were either crazy expensive (10 times are much for example) or they were tiny, or the one
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by speeder 6y ago
I am from Brazil. On the first day of trials of deep-learning based facial recognition here, a random person was arrested because the algorithm confused that person with another one. Even more stupid, is that the person with "outstandi
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by speeder 6y ago
Nokia behaviour in Brazil infuriates me. 1. The burning platform thingy happened when Nokia was absolutely dominating Brazillian smartphone market, people had even ported Counter-Strike to Symbian! Then suddenly it was dead, and didn't

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